Video 2 of 3 Saturday is usually Church day for us so we recorded this aspect of our life. LIFE IN A DAY - 24/july/2010 Note: 1) The video is unedited 2) At some points the video seems to freeze which was actually due to few seconds gap between that particular shot and the next one up ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cjTmHVul3Q

Friends and family having fun for 14th August Pakistan Independence day 2022. JUST FOR FUN! #PakistanIndependenceday #14august2022 #pakistanimusic ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og_D0EqmntU

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PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2XlnNnnuiz1YJdcKQLwMx4QKIoWUJL8b Support INSAAN MUSIC with paypal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=N4ULJYTPY49PW¤cy_code=GBP&source=url Dear friends, ladies and gentlemen. As-salamu alaykum (”Peace be with you”). I am Ustad Latafat Ali Khan. I am of the Shamchaurasi Gharana (“musical lineage/tradition”). Which originated from East of Punjab, India (before partition). That is really the birthplace of our musical tradition. Which originated from East of Punjab, India (before partition). I am the second son of Late Ustad Salamat Ali Khan. With Allah’s grace I am also in the field of music and am a representative of our Gharana. Thanks to Allah our Gharana has existed for more than 500 years. Our forefathers, Miah Chand Khan and Miah Suraj Khan were singers in the Court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, and that is where our Gharana began. Before this, our forefathers were humble farmers of the Rajput caste and our transition into music was truly the result of an elder’s prayer. Allah was merciful and our forefathers became singers, serving the Emperor’s court. So that’s the origins of our Gharana. Shamchaurasi Gharana of East Punjab, as I stated earlier. And now a Gharana known all over the world. Our Gharana has produced some big singers of fame. But Ustad Salamat Ali Khan (Father) and Ustad Nazakat Ali Khan (Uncle) were most influential. They took our Gharana’s name to all corners of the world. We have also had greats like Miah Maan Khan, Miah Bachhatar Khan, Shamus Khan, Tabriz Khan, then there’s Miah Miran Bakhsh Khan, Miah Karim Bakhsh Khan. Miah Karim Bakhsh‘s mausoleum is in Shamchaurasi (the village) and he was a singer in the state of Jammu , under the then King of Jammu and Kashmir. He was a marvellous singer. Dhrupad (musical tradition) is the foundation of our Gharana which is arguably the oldest of vocal traditions in Classical music. Nowadays Dhrupad is quite rare. Learning and understanding it is a skill in itself. As time passed our elders made their name in the Khyal (”imagination”) genre of singing. Here they experimented with many shades of Dhrupad and made a name for themselves. Many of our Gharana’s singers now excel in Khyal. Now we have our fourteenth generation of singers and musicians, with my younger brother Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan making quite a name for himself around the globe, on the Classical music scene. My other younger brother Ustad Sakawat Ali Khan resides in San Francisco, California. He is very much active in the Classical music scene there. I reside here in London. Wherever we are, we are representing our Gharana. But it’s the result of our forefathers’ prayers and blessings that this tradition is still aliv ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDGXt6qZmQs